Today’s Photohunter theme is “artificial”.

When I was in Málaga last week a very common sight in the streets, and especially near restaurants, were biznaga sellers.

The “biznaga” is a small floral arrangement using jasmine flowers. The little flowers head are mounted onto the dried stalk of another Mediterranean plant known as “ammi visage” thus creating the final arrangement. The jasmine flowers are picked at dusk when they are still closed so that it is easier to string them together. At nigthfall the blossoms open turning into an amazing white ball of heady fragance.

Just before I left Málaga I saw the mother of all biznagas (in fact, two of them) being installed at the end of Calle Larios and thought they were wonderful, though they were clearly artificial.